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A Medical Mans Advice

Under oil circumstances, and in all
states of health, we are affected favor
ably by personal contact. Two persons
should rarely ever sleep together. The
result is now well understood to be de-
vitalizing to ono or the other. YAM
pire natures fatten; their victims weaken.
This is quite as true of husbands and
wives as Of others. 1t is peculiarly true
Of children. The exceptions do exist
where there is q mutual benefit, but the
exceptions are rare. The eXcretions dur
ing sleep are one thing, the absorptions
another. q :.
Irecently was called to attend young
girl whose symptoms were lassitude, and,
as she said, she felt worse after sleeping,
and dreaded going to bed. Yet she slept
we'll. I found that her bed mate was
q woman of 40 of peculiarly vampirish
temperament. The proper course in this
case was total separation Of the victim
from the devourer. If the case has been
long protractel, and the evil seriously
affecting health, send the patient into the
country to associate with trees and flow
ers.--M. Maurice, M. D., in Globe Demo-
crot
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9aaersuil gntelligenesr,
sLlNDFoLD.

What do we know Of the world, as we grow SO old
and wisci
Do tho years, that still the heart beats, quicken
the drowsy eyesi
8 Az twenty we thought we knew it--the world
there, OF our feet;
thought We hOl found It's bitter, wb knew we
had found its sweet
s NOV at forty and fifty, what do we make Of tha
world
There in the sand she crouches, the Sphinx with
her gray wings furled.
q Soul OF q mani know not; who knoweth, can
foretell,
And what canI reed Of fate, even Of self I have
learned sowell! ~
fteartot nwoman Fhow not; how should hope
to know,
! that am foiled by flower, or the stars Of the
:sileht snow;
that have never guessed tho mind Of the bright
eyed bird,
S Waom even the dull rocks cheat, and the whirl-
winds awful word?
me loosen the flllet Of clay from the shut and
darkened lid,
OF life Is q blindfold game, and the Voice from
View Is hid.
II face him as best can. still cropping here and
as there;
the hand that has touched me lightly. the lips
that have said "Declarel''
Well. 1declare him my hieud-the friend OF the
whole sad race;
% See his facel
81 tis much, though grope In blindness, the
Voice that is hid from view
q heard, may be even loved, in q; dream
- bat may come true. :.
IN - ssi.ss szs . S.sS-Andrev Hedhrooke
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-05-05
rhe narber business in German,

The barber business in Germany is far
different from what it is in the American
country. There every one does not go to
the barber shop when he wants to be
shaved. The best BARRIERS have of course
regular custom at the shops, but they
also have three or four employees whose
business it is to attend to the outside
trade; that is they 60 around from house
to house and attend to the wants of Ger
tain customers. This class of customers
have their own cups and razors and are
waited on at such times rs best suits their
convenience. They are the aristocrats,
and would no more think of going in and
taking chair in IL barber shop and wait
their turn than they would Of backing
their own shoes. These men generally
pay from IS to $40 per year for the SER
vice rendered thcm.-GlobeD Democrat.
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The Cyclone in the West.

Fort Scorr, April pa special
from Prescott, in this county reports a
terrible cyclone on Thursday evening at
about $50 O'Clock. There were seven
teen killed at different points throughout
the county, and an incalculable amount
of damage done to all kinds of property.
The town of Prescott is wiped out OF
existence, not 81 single building being
left standing to mark the site of a once
prosperous and thriving place. Reports
are coming in from all over the county
of damage by the terrible storm. 1t was
a genuine cyclone, but came from the
northwest instead of southwest, as is
usual. Hail fell all over the county.
Some stones measured thirteen inches in
circumference.
ST.. LOUIS, April 23.-special dis.
patches published this morning show that
fearful cyclones, tornadoes and hailstorma
swept over a considerable part of western
and southwestern Missouri, Southeastern
Kansas and northern Arkansas on Thurs
day evening, causing greas loss of life and
destruction of property, as well as maim'
ing large number of people.
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Some Of our high society got odd In
Fortescue, the English actress and sen.
timental plaintiff, just before her de:
parture for home. She is beauty, be II
understood, and her cleanly law suit
against Lord Garmoyle has forced her
into fashionable consideration. She may
have failed, as they assert, in her profes'
sional tour Of America, but her positively
Last appearance before an audience was q
triumph. Bernhardt is playing here.
She freakishly insists upon making the
intermissions between acts half an hour
long. The people resent this trifing, and
Manager Abbey is seriously annoyed, be.
cause it hurts the business. Fortescue has
been under his direction, too. She told
him that she wished to see the great
Frcnchwoman act.
"I'll give you box," he said, eff you
will wear good clothes, look your prettiest,
and sit at the front, SO that the audience
will have something to divert them during
the long waits
''It's bargain" replied Fortcscue; 90
will agree to entertain the people 'twixt
acts" She did, with vengeance. She
wore white fluff1ly, and carried an I'M
mense fan of the same color. That made
her conspicuous, for it is not the custom
in New York to don such clothes for the
drama, though it is done elaborately al
the opera. She seated herself at the front
of O lower proscenium box, facing the au
hence, and proceeded to impersonate Q
vivacious, ingenious maiden. 1t was as
hold nm 11nflartakinp MS anybofly aver SAY,
in theatre; it was q marvel of demon
strativo pantomime; picturesque poses
and extrayagant gesticulation alternated
bevy of fellows supported her tahleaux
and the amazed and amused spectators
found that the tedium Of the half houl
intervals was beguiled. But it would be 6
pity if the young girls present were te
take pattern Of Fortescue and behave in
that extraordinary fashion at the theatre
-sUncls Bill" in Chicago Herald.
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One of Those Mysteries.

There was an old fellow turning a.hand
opgan on Grand River avenue yesterday
when O man and his wife stopped for q
moment to hear the music and read the
sign hanging on his neck. The sign read:
'sI have suffered with rheumatism until /
have no use of my hands or arms. Please
help me-"
'fPoor man-give him something's" ex-
claimed the wife.
''Sure he's a'' riNlt?'
s'Why, of c. Doesn't the sign say
, he has lost the, Of his hands and arms:"
J The husband dropped dime into the
box, and the pair went on, but they had
not proceeded over half n block when the
wife halted with a>sudden jerk and cx-
claimed:
s'Why-why, how could he turn the
crank if he had lost the use of his arms?"
IT dunno" softly replied the man, and
then, while the woman gritted her teeth
and clenched her fingers lie leaned up
against tree box and laughed hawl
hawl haw! until he was tired.-Dctroit
Free Press
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= Farmer Keith, of Runuels County
Texas, is noted for his big beard. 1t is
said TO be FIVE feet four inches long and
twenty. one inches wide in its broadest
part. 1t is of rich chestnut color, and
its owner, prosperous sheep grower, is
very proud of it.
One who has suffered says a
coquette is woman without any heart,
who makes fool of man that amt got
any head.
California last year shipped eas
$1,000 tons of grapes. If freights will
justify it, double that amount will reach
US another year.
= The German government has just
paid s25O,OOO for an invention for steer
ing balloons. A successful trial of the
invention was made by the war Office.
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He Welded a Red Hot Pen.

Said commercial traveller: "My bust
ness calls me good deal to Colorado and
New Mexico, and I have many acquaint-
ances and friends out there. One Of my
friends is little fellow named McDer-
mott, editor Of q mining camp paper. he
is not much bigger than pint Of cider,
but he has tremendous nerve. He is as
quick as lightning with his gun, and is not
was telling me Of one experience he had a
few months ago. A big, tough fellow
walked into his sanctum one evening and
announced that he had come to do up the
editor. He had Elk shooter in his hand
and advanced with it cooked. Ithappened
that my friend had just sent his revolver
out to be repaired, and he was without a
weapon. He tried to palaver with the
desperate and talk him out of his passion
in order to gain time. Bnt the more he
talked the fiercer the caller became. Sus-
pecting that the editor was unarmed, he
took fendish delight in holding his victim
covered with his revolver and telling him
that he had only sixty minutes to live.
But my friends brain was working at q
lively rate oil this time, and while he
talked he held his pen In the flame Of the
gas jet over his desk.
Without the Desperate suspecting what
he was up to, he succeeded in getting the
pen red hot-it took only few seconds
and then he made jump for his assail-
ant so suddenly and with such catlike
quickness that before the ruffian, taken
off his guard by the supposltion that the
editor was unarmed, could fire shot the
little man had thrown one arm around the
big fellows neck and was iabbing his red
hot pen into his face at the rate Of 200
strokes to the minute. Imagine the
wounds that big, sharp, red hot pen must
have made, held securely in a strong eel
luloid holder, driven by the arm Of man
fighting for life. Think Of the suferings
the desperate must have endured in the
few brief seconds before his agony con-
quered his courage and caused him to
throw the revolver to the floor as token
that he gave up the battle. That rufflan
---he was drunk on that occasion-is now
one Of the best friends the little editor
has, though his face is badly SCARED
from the wounds inflicted Oh him. Over
the desk of my friend hangs pen, still
covered with blood stains its whole
length, and over it is placard, written
in tho blood that was formed upon it just
after the battle: "The pen is nightier
than the six shooter. ."-Chicago Herald.
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Bucklen's A.rnaca Salve.

Ths Best Salve in The world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tion, or money refunded. Price Is cents
per box. For sale by Hill Bros, Ander'
SOD. S, G..
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Advantages of Electricity.

In Boston, it is stated, the arrests made
for serious offenses committed on the
highway has shown n very marked falling
off in number since the electric light for
street purposes was Chicago
Times
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Such Is Fame.

A little provincial paper in England, re-
ferring to our Howells, said recently:
"The Americans are boasting of novelist
who is appropriately enough named
Howls."
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wood, Laurens and Spartanburg.
Connections at Augusta with Georgia,
South Carolina and Central Railroads. At
Spartanburg with A & G. Air Line and
Asheville & Spartanburg r. R.
Tickets on sale at Anderson to oil points
at through rates. Baggage checked to des-
tinaton. E. T. CHARLTON, G. P. A.
W. w. STARR, Supt., Augusta, Ga.
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About 100 boys are in the plumbing
class of the New York trade school en-
gagged in studying the art.
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NAV Fortescue Retween Aot,.

s'The tree of death" is what The Buff
falo Express calls the telegraph pole.
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PORT ROYAL & WESTERN CAR.
0IINA RAILWAY.

In effect April Is, 1887.
Time-1 hour slower than G. Sc G. Z. Il
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Going south-Daily, except Sunday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-09-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Charles James Fox was in Parlia-
ment at nineteen.
-Chlef-Justice Waite's hair is be-
ginning to be dashed with silver
threads.
Book, in their present form were
first made by Attalus, King of Ber-
gamus, in 8S7.
Lord Bacon graduated at Cam
bridge when sixteen, and was called to
the bar at tw enty-one.
-Landseer, the great animal painter.
once asked Sidney Smith to grant him
sitting. whereupon the clerical wit
replied: ''Is thy servant dog that he
should do this thingP"
Prince Bismarck is the most deco
rated man in Europe. Should he ever
appear wearing the insignia of all the
orders conferred on him he would re-
semble an Oriental prince
"A new sixpenny illustrated maga-
zine is to be publised in England under
the name of Atalanta. Mr.. Ruskin
will write the preface, and Andrew
Lang and Rider Haggard will con-
tribute to the first number.
Transcript.
The original of long lost letter
written by General Washington in ac-
acknowledgement of an address from the
citizens of Newport has just been
found in that city. 1t is written on
both sides Of two quarto pages of letter
paper and is still distinct and read
able.
More copies of Mrs. Dodge's
"Story of Hans Brinker" have been
sold than any book for children from
the pen of an American author, yet
the author had the most extreme diff
ficulty in finding publisher for it
when it was completed in manuscript.
The Scribners finally accepted the
book after it had been declined by
several houses.
"A volume, entitled "Plus d'Angle-
terre," after the style of the Battle of
Dorking," has been published in Paris.
1t is another account of successful in
vasion of England. The French forces
land at Hastings after vanqushing a
British squadron at sea, and after
transporting one hundred and fifty
thousand men rapidly and having cut
the telegraph cable. A great battle is
fought southwest of Tunbridge. Phil
adelphia Press.
The "Fox Hunt" figure is the latest
for seaside germans. A lady and gen.
tleman are selected as foxes. The
gentleman receives fox's tail and the
lady red ribbon to be pinned to her
left shoulder. Three additional
couples receive different ribbons and
represent the hunters. A waltz is then
played. The couple representing the
foxes is allowed start and the hunters
follow, endea 'oring to capture them.
If they succeed the foxes retire and the
successful couple finish the dance with
their trophy.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-09-29
HUMOROUS.

That was merciful man of South
Yonkers who took his gas meter with
him to the country for little rest
Yonkers Statesman.
What beats us is to know how it
was possible to stretch the skin SO
tightly over shad, and yet not have
the bones punch through. gh.-DansvilI
Breeze.
"A Ridge street man has told so
many lies in his life that his wife has
to sand-paper his tongue three times a
day-before eating.-Gorham Mount
aineer.
When your family physician gets
sick, it is not good form to call and
gaze at him every few days. 1t shows
a mean, revengeful spirit. Merchant
Ira Ueler.
"A man in the park reading a sign,
"Keep Of the Grass" asked a police
man facetiously what he could keep it
off with. with your feet" was the
briefreply.-7eras SytingS.
"A rural correspondent asks: "How
can remove vermin from my hensp"
Make them use their combs. Your
hens don't seem to have been brought
upright. Binghamton Republican,
An advertisement reads: Wanted
"A young man to be partly out of
doors and partly behind the counter"
and the Cleveland Leader asks: "What
will be the result when the door
| slamsp"
Sam Johnsing-"Miss SNOWFALL.
will yer participate in some noah ice
creamp" Miss Snowball-',No noah,
Mister Johnsing / likes ice-cream
once in awhile, but not as beverage.
Please 'scuse me. "-Teras Sittings.
-Absent-minded Businessman Ito
office boy)-''Tommy, go up to my
house and tell my wife l have again
forgotten my watch. Bring it back
with you" He pulls out his watch
and continues: Now, Tommy, it is
nine o'clock: De back at ten. Epoch
You have gone to housekeeping,
l hear" said Berry to his friend Hanks.
"Yes," said Hanks, land my wife is
perfectly delighted. She reminds me
of tea-kettle, she sings so pleasant
ly," Humph," said Berry, "my
wife reminds me of a tea-kettle,
too. never know when she's going
to boil over" IN Y. Ledger.
She Made Mash.
Twas q six-dollar title-to be brieL
But fat party brought it to grief;
For she sat on 1t fat
What he said after that
Wed repeat-but we've turned q new leaf
-7eras SJtings.
-"Tis at the picnic in July we sit
down on the custard pie" sings the
poet of the Boston Courier. To which
we would add: "And then you skin
right straight for home and scape il
off with a cuTy-comb. When il
comes to poetry we expect to keep up
with Boston or smash our machine in
the attampt-Nes0nsdn IHdepeRdent.
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One Dollar Per Year.
PROTECTION FOR GIRLS.

Some Needed Lcgislation-The Statutes
on "Ase of Consent" In Different
States.
The effort made by the w. c. I. us
of New York State, last winter, to
have the "Age of consent" raised to
eighteen years, has borne excellent
fruit. The bill providing for this was
drawn up under the supervision and
introduced at the request of Mr. Aaron
Powell, editor of the Philanth, opist and
secretary of the Society for the Pro-
vention of Vice, of which Mrs. Abby
Hopper Gibbons is president.
A bill was introduced and passed in
the Senate, fixing the age at fifteen
years, but, at the earnest entreaties OF
the State Department of Social Purity
and the Society for the Prevention OF
Vice, the Assembly, on the Oath OF
June, passed the bill fixing the age at
sixteen years. The Senate concurred
in this, and Governor Hill having
signed the bill it is now the law, its
passage certified to by the Secretary
of State. The age of sixteen was
fixed upon, as, by an act passed at the
last session of the Legislature, sixteen
years was made the marriageable age
for females and eighteen for males.
We now stand where England does
upon the age of consent. viz, sixteen
years. The result in that country was
brought about by the revelations made
in the Pail Mall Gazette. During the
past winter New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania have each passed laws
fixing the age at sixteen years. llli-
nois and Michigan have fixed 1t at
fourteen; Maine at thirteen, while the
Legislature of Delaware adjourned
leaving the age at seuen years. The
Department of Social Purity feels un-
der great obligations to Hon. John l.
Platt, of Poughkeepsie, who introduced
the bill asking for eighteen years, and
through whose earnest efforts we be-
lieve the result to be largely DUE
WOulGn'S Journal,
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CHEATING THE LAW.
Readable Incident of Life In the Jumb
Territory of America.

Readable Incident of Life In the Jumbo
Territory of America.
A family recently moved into Cen
trail Dakota county. from the East.
Three or four mornings after a lumber
wagon drove up and man got out
and raped at the door. The woman
appeared, and the man said:
"Goed-mornin', ma a'am; l hope yor
amt tished him out yetP"
"What is it, sirp"
II say l hope every thing remains
Just as it was--that's the law in cases
of this kind, We know"
II don't understand you"
II can't see why you don't-you
must know what's happened an what
the law requires in such cases. This is
the jury out'n the wagon and I'm cer-
oner-don't delay us cause we're all
anxious TO earn our fees an git back
an git in a days work harvestin'-
grains powerful ripe. ma a'am."
There hasn't been any death here,
sirr'
There haintP Didn't your husband
fall down the well?"
mo, sirr'
didn't he git wanderin' round in
the night an tumble down an old well
into four feet of water an drown'd an
break his neck both at the same time?"
"No, sir. he didn't He's out in the
field at work now. One of our calves
fell down an old we'll last night"
"D'ye hear that boys?-that's how
the blame yarn got started! Madam,
tell yer husband to be very keerful in
the future-if we come again we shall
hold the inquest whether he is dead or
notr" Then. as he turned and climbed
in the wagon. he added:"Bill. jes' keep
that verdiek We writ up-the burned
fool may drop down that well ret"- -
DsskntS Relk
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THE ACORN AND THE PUMPKIN
A Paraphrase of French Fable.

A Paraphrase of a French Fable.
'Tis said that once man of thoupbtfu, MIND
unlearned withal, to study not inclined,
When, strolling through the fields. once
chanced to see
A pumpkin vine beneath an oaken tree.
The pumpkin, large and yellow. fine and
round,
Still growing to the vine, lay on the ground:
The peasant viewed 1t DER, then looked on
high
Upon the tree whose branches reached the
sky,
Beheld the acorns which the tree adorned.
Then, with scornful voice. aloud he mourned.
Alas! that Providence no more should know
Than sadly to mismanage matters so;
Now, were He, never should have made
This pumpkin vast to lie here in the shade
Growing upon vine so small; instead
Iwould have placed 1t on the tree o'erhead.
While the small acorns on the vine might grow.
An idiot, sure, would know 'twere better so.n
Thus, moaning that the gods were not as he
He laid him down to rest beneath the tree.
But soon an acorn falling on his nose
Caused him such pain that straightwav he
arose.
Enchanting: "Ahl the gods know best. see
For, had they placed the pumpkin on the tree
Falling, it would have killed me as lay;
Therefore, make VOW that from this dav
/ VIII from foolish thoughts and meditations
rest,
Fully convinced that Providence knows best"
Albany (M ~ Argus.
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the popping began. The two men
walked toward each other firing as
fast as you could count Jim dropped
to the floor. Five-fngered Jack wav-
cred moment and then fell across
Jim's body.
ave crawled out of our hiding
places to view the remains 81 Hawk
ins was the first to get to them, and he
looked down mournfully as we gath
cred around.
"'Gad, boys he said, regretfully,
we're one coffin short. San Fran
cisco Post.
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A Mighty Stupid Clerk.

Dealer Ito clerk)-What did that
young lady want James9
Clerk-She asked for anatomical
Brussels carpets. and l told her we
hadn't such thing.
Dealer-Great Scott, James. that
young lady is from Boston! She want
ed body Brussels, and we've got an
overstock of 'em.-M Y. SUM-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-09-29

Jones was going in the country
for six months. No doubt you'll find
it a great bore" some one said to him.
'-Oh, no-the only time / find it hssd
to dispose of is that from nine in the
morning to nine at night.-Judqe,